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Ayukawa Tetsuya Award あゆかわてつやしょう

Edition 1 (1990)

Newcomer Literary AwardFull-length Mystery Novel

Winners

3 people
Ashibe Taku あしべ たく award

A classic whodunit that follows a string of murders at a shared university boarding house, packed with film references and inside jokes.

As the victims mount one by one, the atmosphere inside the house begins to collapse.

382 pages
classic mysteryboarding houseserial murderstudent circle
にかいどう れいと

A full-length mystery in which Nikaido Ranko unravels a case of threatened murder and two tragedies surrounding an old family house.

In a snowbound old mansion, the mysteries of the locked room and the murderer without footprints overlap.

599 pages
classic mysterylocked roomold houseNikaido Ranko
にしざわ やすひこ

A detective mystery in which three campus friends investigate a fall death that occurs on Christmas Eve.

Behind the comedic detective work, the relationship among the three gradually takes shape.

375 pages
detective mysterycampustriofall death